Global rating agency S&P affirmed India's unsolicited foreign and local currency sovereign ratings with a stable long-term outlook

Women of the Chayanpurva village in Barabanki will no longer peddle 'poison', they will now distribute honey

The Zero Teenage Pregnancy (ZTP) campaign, launched at the start of this year, aiming at highlighting the issue in Rajasthan, has created a buzz around the sensitive and important issue of early marriages and pregnancies

Boarding the burning as well as intermittently exploding 'MT New Diamond' - a very large oil tanker holding about 300,000 tonnes of crude - and connecting it to tow to arrest its drift towards the Sri Lankan coast and positioning it into the wind was the turning point in saving the tanker as well as the marine environment, said the Indian Coast Guard

Nepal's Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has prepared the draft of two ordinances proposing to increase the prison term for the perpetrators of acid attacks to 20 years and also to regulate the sale and distribution of acid

A judicial commission in Pakistan formed to probe the 2014 Peshawar Army Public School massacre said that the tragedy could never have taken place if some local people had not given shelter to the terrorists, it was reported on Saturday

Despite multiple attacks on Pakistani journalists, the issue did not make it to the federal cabinet's agenda during its first 62 meetings between September 1, 2018 and January 30, 2020, according to a watchdog report

In a strongly worded rebuke to the Indian response following Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) — categorically stated that Jammu and Kashmir never was and never will be a part of India, adding that New Delhi has no claim over the region other than that of a "military occupier"

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has decided to visit villages across the island nation to address people's grievances on a face-to-face basis and provide immediate solutions to their problems, according to an official statement

Former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena should take the sole responsibility of the coordinated 2019 Easter Sunday carnage, former IGP Pujith Jayasundara said, adding that the massacre that killed over 250 people was well planned

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has asked the maritime ports to continue with the Local Cautionary Signal No. 3 as strong monsoon persists over the North Bay of Bengal, the media reported

Schools will reopen for grades 9 through 12 on October 4, the Maldives government has announced

Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid said on Saturday that the establishment of cargo ferry service between India and Kulhudhuffushi city is the beginning of the end of the high dependency on the capital Male’ city for development needs

The cargo ferry established between Maldives and Cochin, India has docked at Kulhudhuffushi Harbour

INS Sunayna, Saryu-class patrol ship of the Indian Navy, arrived in Maldives on Saturday, for the serial joint maritime surface surveillance patrol by the MNDF Coastguard and Indian Navy